Just got my 4th tattoo today, and...it was the single most painful experience of my entire life, bar none. Granted, I've not been in too many painful situations before, but I honestly was sweating/shaking/convulsing from the sheer agony of this, and according to the guy it's pretty much the worst spot (other than the genitals) to get ink done. But goddammit, it fit so perfectly there (especially how he drew it out!) that I sucked it up, and it was worth it! We were originally gonna do the coloring in the same session, but I absolutely could not take any more, so I'll be back in a month (with $25 more, whatever) to finish it up! I give you, Okami Amaterasu, courtesy of Taylor at "Golden Lotus Tattoo" in Oneonta NY!
As some of you might have noticed, I love canines - my whole life I've grown up with golden retrievers, and I've always regarded wolves with a great respect and reverence; I think they're the most beautiful creatures on earth. And when I played through Okami, one of the most beautiful and fantastic video games ever made IMO, I knew I had to combine my love of both into ink! I showed the guy a few different images, and what's on me is the end result - the dude is a fucking artist!
Here are my others (excuse the pose) - the back is the Zyklon razer wheel (while I do really like the band, they're certainly not my favorite - rather, I just wanted a cool logo that embodied my unbridled love of metal), and the shoulders are my parents' names in bind-runes (meaning, all the rune letters of Mimi and Doug on left and right, respectively, are there, they were just all put together into bitchin' looking designs by one of my artist friends)
So everyone, show your ink!!
As some of you might have noticed, I love canines - my whole life I've grown up with golden retrievers, and I've always regarded wolves with a great respect and reverence; I think they're the most beautiful creatures on earth. And when I played through Okami, one of the most beautiful and fantastic video games ever made IMO, I knew I had to combine my love of both into ink! I showed the guy a few different images, and what's on me is the end result - the dude is a fucking artist!
Here are my others (excuse the pose) - the back is the Zyklon razer wheel (while I do really like the band, they're certainly not my favorite - rather, I just wanted a cool logo that embodied my unbridled love of metal), and the shoulders are my parents' names in bind-runes (meaning, all the rune letters of Mimi and Doug on left and right, respectively, are there, they were just all put together into bitchin' looking designs by one of my artist friends)
So everyone, show your ink!!
Thanks though man! And yeah, I can imagine the inner bicep would be bad, but I dunno, this one being on the ribcage with like zero muscle there, GAAAAAHHHH...
Here's a close-up of mine, look at the freakin' detail!! (her claws on her front paws, for example)
